I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.